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Dwarf Puffer
Carinotetraodon travancoricus
Family: Tetraodontidae
📍 Kerala Backwaters, India
The world's smallest pufferfish, the dwarf puffer is a freshwater species with enormous personality. They are intelligent, curious, and aggressive hunters of snails and worms. Best kept in species-specific tanks or with fast, robust tankmates.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Carnivore – snails, bloodworms, brine shrimp, daphnia
- lifespan
- 4–5 years
- max size
- 3.5 cm (1.4 in)
- tank size
- 10 gallons minimum for a small group
- temperament
- Aggressive toward small or slow fish; fin-nipper
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Water it likes
- ph
- 7.0–8.0
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 5–25 dGH
- temperature
- 72–82°F (22–28°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
79°F — 86°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Apr high)